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@dang - arguably misleading title, please consider renaming to “Bloomberg LP fined €5m for publishing fake press release”. Current title can be read that Michael Bloomberg was personally fined.

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i'm not sure most people see "Bloomberg" and think of the person rather than the company

A month ago I would have agreed with you, but since he announced his candidacy for the American Presidency I'd argue it's become less clear cut.

I certainly read this as the person, initially.

I assumed it was the presidential candidate. Would support a title change to clear up the confusion.

We changed the title as part of changing the URL to Reuters. Submitted title was "Bloomberg fined $5.6M for publishing fake press release".

Actually the originally submitted title was "Bloomberg was taught a $5.6M lesson on factchecking", but the submitter edited it a few minutes later, which was good because that one broke the site guidelines badly.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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